Exploring 21st Century Skills with Hands-On Activities for Your Classroom
Life & Career Skills: Communication & Collaboration
Task: Using a "sticky note" add two activities or ideas that you have used in the classroom to teach something that "connected" with students. Here is an example: "to teach communitive property in math we used a domino so that the students could see that 2 + 3 was the same as 3 +2 (the dots/total stayed the same)
Go to Lino and share how you might use comics in your classroom to check or understanding.
Media Literacy: Smart Searching Activity
Task: Try doing a "smart search" on something for your classroom. Use math symbols to combine search terms or do an advanced search. Try searching by a country domain or exclude the .com domain.
Go to Wall Wisher (link above) and share how smart searching might help you or your students in the classroom this year.
Participant Sharing of Classroom Activities
Task: Share an idea that you use in your classroom and as a group we will discuss where the activity might fit in the 21st Century Framework.
Reflection/Closing: What are you currently doing to address 21st Century Skills? Based on today's activities, what will you consider in future lesson planning?
21st Century Skills Workshop
21st Century Framework
Symbaloo/Links: Schraeder_21st Century Symbaloo
Powerpoint slides:
Graphic Organizer:
Gallery Walk of 21st Century Skills
Flat World
Technology and 21st Century Tools
Exploring 21st Century Skills with Hands-On Activities for Your Classroom